For generations, a US visa stamp was a passport to prestige across the Caribbean. Under the Trump regime it has become both bribe and bludgeon — and a growing number of travellers, and even Americans themselves, are deciding the price is too high.
MONTEGO BAY, Jamaica, October 5, 2026 - Calvin G Brown | Stand on Old Hope Road before the sun has cleared the Blue Mountains and you will see it: the queue. Shirts ironed the night before, folders of bank statements clutched like scripture, job letters, land titles, a pastor’s reference for good measure.
